Posts by SaulM

Antarctic boffins obtain prehistoric deep ice core sample

I am liking..

"plucky boffins"

Made me chuckle.

Celebrity goat declines Britain's Got Talent gig

Britain's Future Boyles Collectively Relieved

No doubt there will be sighs of relief from the next round of muppets lining up for BGT. Those few that actually have sufficient brain cells to make the connection will have realised they won't have to prove they they are more talented than a goat. Probably just as well.

Mind you, it hasn't stopped Piers Morgan.

BT extends trials of boondocks broadband

@AC

That's just the sort of limited thinking that's holding us back. And you're completely wrong about the available options.

Doesn't have to be 12km. Nearest exchange to me is closer than that and the connection doesn't necessarily have to be to an exchange in any case. We don't need the government or BT to lay fibre, that's a huge misconception. With the necessary permission from landowners you can lay it yourself for a fraction of the cost BT quote.

JS didn't say we have "high broadband availability", he said the UK "...already boasts world leading broadband availability." which is a pitiful comment to make to those 3 million households who aren't getting it.

I'm betting you work for an incumbent telco. This is the usual view they peddle.

All BETs are off

Utterly pointless. 1Mbps is paltry now and will be even more useless by the time BT get this rolled out to a significant number of people. And there'll still be 'not-spots', despite what the press release says.

If BT and the local authorities really want to help, forget BET and pump the £3000 per line into laying fibre to the home (FTTH), which will future-proof speeds for decades, and get BT to drop their backhaul prices to something that will enable community broadband projects to become more viable. Thy're not helping us get broadband, they're hindering us!

And if you need any more help dismissing this load of shareholder-pleasing hype, note that John Small, MD of Openreach, actually states that the UK "already boasts world leading broadband availability."

Yeah, right. If the world is Mars.